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by j_not_j 501 days ago
See https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/05/01/just-how-big-are-nvi...

They estimated $200k for a single NVIDIA GPU-based CPU complete with RAM and networking. That's where my number came from. (RAM and especially very-high-speed networking is very expensive at these scales.)

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You mean this part?

"Add it all up, and the average selling price of an Nvidia GPU accelerated system, no matter where it came from, was just under $180,000, the average server SXM-style, NVLink-capable GPU sold for just over $19,000 (assuming the GPUs represented around 85 percent of the cost of the machine)"

That implies they assumed an 8-GPU system. (8 × $19,000 = $152,000 ≈ 85% × $180,000)

yes